Monty Python's Flying Circus was the totally meaningless name coined for the innovative English comedy troupe comprised of John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, and the late Graham Chapman. Embraced by the critics and public alike, the team enriched airwaves with their distinctive brand of irreverent and often surreal sketch comedy and satire on BBC-1 from 1969 through 1973 and on BBC-2, without Cleese, for the last few months of 1974. The show offered savage broadsides against the pomposity and repression of the British establishment, outlandish spoofs of European
